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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I wish to raise the many problems in the National Ambulance Service. Staff are doing their best but there are problems beyond their control. I will outline some of those problems. There are not enough staff or ambulances. We have approximately 1,500 staff. Scotland, which has a similar population, has more than double that number. We have 675 operational ambulances in the service....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: The Taoiseach is correct about the investment, but we will not get the benefit of it because of the way the system is configured. The Taoiseach used the word "evidence". I will tell him what the evidence is. A county has no cover because the ambulance that is on call has to go to an emergency two or three counties away. That cannot be allowed to continue. That is the way Laois has been...

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Minister-----

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Could we stop any heckling, please?

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Micheál Martin says the time is not right. The Deputy will get an opportunity, I will use my opportunity. Micheál Martin says the time is not now. Full reconciliation has to a precondition but that will mean it will never happen. Yes, we need to advance reconciliation and we should promote it. Of course we should. I have met people from the unionist community in the past,...

Irish Unity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this important debate. It has been 27 years since the Good Friday Agreement was endorsed, north and south, and over 100 years since partition. A lot of us at the time of the Good Friday Agreement, if we are being honest, were reluctant supporters of it. I will read out one line in it. "The Government [meaning the British Government] of Ireland Act...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I welcome the witnesses, especially Ms Lawler, formerly of Laois County Council. It is good to see her again. She was good to work with when she was in the housing department in Laois for a good few years. My first question specifically concerns Longford, so Mr. Mahon might be best placed to answer. It is impressive that the vacancy rate has gone down from 7% to 2.4%. I read the papers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: I am really just looking for a figure. I have a few more questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Is the difference in the range of 25% to 30%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: It is also a more efficient system because the council can get the work done when it wants it done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Direct labour is working for Longford County Council; that is what I wanted to establish. In Mr. Mahon's experience, how long is it taking for CPOs to be approved by An Bord Pleanála?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: What is the average waiting time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: It is helpful to have a figure. My next question is for the Department officials and it concerns the former County Hotel in Portlaoise. Ms Lawler will recall this one. It was a derelict site for 30 years. Laois County Council then compulsorily purchased it, I think, and an AHB was going to develop it by putting 11 apartments into the existing building, which I always thought was daft...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: But the cost per unit of these would have been astronomical. I can tell Mr. O'Reilly it will be cheaper to level. The masonry can be used for road-building.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Longford County Council has dealt with a lot of dereliction, so the officials might give an answer on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: Has Longford County Council had any sites where it levelled a building and put in a new street?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: You get a better quality house if you build new.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budget allocation and full contract cost for construction works and refurbishment of Portlaoise Garda Station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56513/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the other capital works on Garda Stations in Laois which will be funded in 2026, aside from Portlaoise Garda Station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56514/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (21 Oct 2025)

Brian Stanley: 562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department, and the Prison Service, will consider extending the mandatory retirement age for prison officers beyond the current 62 years. [56612/25]